Improvement in plows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY` SELIGK, OF LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVEM ENT IN PLOWS.`

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,386, dated September 28, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SELICK, ot' Lewistown, in Mifflin county and State ol .Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Plows; and i do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, through letters indicate like parts.

1n the ordinary construction-of plows, great inconvenience and loss of effective labor are experienced from the fact that the implement is adapted for use by a man of ordinary or medium height, so that when usedby a small man the handles are inconveniently high, and l when by atall one they are too low, so that neither can handle it with proper effect without au undue expenditure of physical force. Various means have been devised to remedy this evil, such as jointing the handles at the upper part, so that they might be bent or crooked up or down, or, when they are attached to the beam, by connecting the latter in an adjustable manner to the plow, which are both objectionable, for reasons unnecessary to state hei e.

To remedy these inconveniences is the object of my invention; and it consists in pivoting the handles at their lower ends, the one to the mold-board, and the other to the landside of the plow, and providing a secondary point of connection, to effect rigidity of attachment, by bolts passing through them, and through curvilinear slots in the upper rear portions of the mold-board and l'andside.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the beam, B the mold-board, and G the landside, of a plow, which may be constructed in any ot' the ordinary forms. To the heel or lower portion of the moldboard and landside are pivoted, by bolt, or otherwise, as represented at c c', the handles D, and at the upper rear eX- tremities of said moldboard and landside are curvilinear slots e e', which are in the form ot'- the arc of a circle around the points c c', and through each of which and its respective handle is passed a locking-bolt, a, by the tight',- ening of which the handles may be secured at any desired elevation. A series of holes arranged in the same curvilinear lines might be substituted for the slots e e.

By this construction the same plow may be used by ashort or tall person with equal facility and without unnecessary expenditure ot' manual labor. Y

What I claim as new, and desire to Vsecure by Letters Patent, is

l. The slots or holes e e', arranged in thev rear end of the mold-board and laudside of a plow, in the arc of a circle described from the pivoted point a, at which thehandles are attached, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The attachment of the handles D to the mold-board and landside of a plow, in the mau-` 

